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Curing SEVERE Clinical Depression.
Today... I realized the main purpose of life is to be genuinely happy no matter what you're doing with your life. That's how I personally see it anyway.
But the thing is... I'm UNhappy. Terribly. Deeply. So I'm not fulfilling that purpose, unfortunately.
I'm sick and tired of being medicated and trying different antidepressants over and over and they never even manage my intense suicidal tendencies or major depressive episodes.
I want to cure my depression NATURALLY, so I can finally come off of these medications (with the permission of my psychiatrist, of course).
I want to journey through this curing by:
1. Subliminal messaging/Law of Attraction: which I DEEPLY DEEPLY DEEPLY believe in and am RIDICULOUSLY passionate about.
2. Healthy dieting: I'll be going pescetarian/only drinking water, milk, 100% juice.
3. Exercising everyday: walking more everyday.
4. Self-love.
But most importantly, deepening my relationship with God.
But how do I deepen my relationship with God? I'm thinking of getting a Christian therapist and talking to God more, but what else?
And what self-love practices would help cure my depression?
Please help!!!! I CANNOT cope with my clinical depression anymore.
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Having been through a case of deep depression myself I feel comfortable talking with you about this. What I will not do is offer clinical advice as I am not a doctor.
I'n sure you are aware there are different types of depression. I was diagnosed with clinical depression caused by a variety of thing going on in my life that just overwhelmed me.
I was luck in that I found an excellent psychiatrist that I was comfortable with on the first try. He changed the medication my PCP put me on and the fog of the depression and the perception problems that accompany depression slowly started to lift.
Where I wasn't to successful at first was with the therapist for talk therapy. The first two I saw instead of helping me find and deal with the trigger of the depression they wanted to help me deal with the physical manifestations. I was injured in a car accident leaving me physically handicapped unable to work which was part of the problem but they didn't address that.
The third therapist a nice young lady a professor of Psychology at one of the local colleges was the one that actually helped me recover. It took time. As she kept reminding me Rome wasn't built in a day and I didn't suddenly dive head first into depression it was something that built up over years and they was triggered. My psychiatrist agreed.
She saw something that I was keeping locked away, something she felt was the basis of my depression. She kept digging for it and I kept changing the subject to the point she called me the king of the Segway. Then one day it came tumbling out of me and that is when I started to recover in earnest.
Now I can't and I wont tell you if a Christian therapist is right or wrong for you. The other things you wrote about are definitely helpful. With talk therapy you must be comfortable enough with the therapist to tell him or her your deepest darkest secrets as if they were r your newest best friend knowing what you say in therapy stays in therapy. If you haven't had talk therapy or you are not comfortable with your therapist by all means find someone you are comfortable with. I just don't know if talking with a Christian therapist is the one you will be most comfortable with.
I have a friend at the fire station I volunteer at who was training to be a Christian therapist while I was suffering with the depression. We talked in between calls when it was our night to stand duty. I listened to him but In ever got all that comfortable with him as I did with my Psychologist therapist.
The key to recovery is this.
1. Being comfortable with your professionals who are helping you.
2. Not just loving yourself but also understanding that the world around you may not be exactly as you perceive it as the depression distorts what you see.
3. Eat Healthy, stay away from alcoholic beverages.
4. Most important; be good to yourself
Stay in touch I would like to know how your doing. You can send private messages to me. Just follow the prompts
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